2023-06-28 19:06:21
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The fact of the day
Another act of war crime in Ukraine. A Russian bombardment on a popular restaurant in Kramatorsk, a large city in the east of the country, left at least ten dead and 61 injured. Three minors are among the dead and a child born in 2022 among the injured, according to the Emergency Situations Service, which said rescue operations are continuing and seven people have been rescued from the rubble alive. Police said Russia fired two S-300 surface-to-air missiles at Kramatorsk, which had a population of 150,000 before the war entered its sixteenth month.
The strike destroyed the Ria Pizza restaurant, a downtown establishment popular with journalists, aid workers and soldiers. Ukrainian media have mentioned the presence of foreign military instructors in town. For his part, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, assured that Russia only hits in Ukraine “installations which are linked in one way or another to military infrastructure”. In addition to the restaurant, apartments, shops, cars, a post office and several other buildings suffered damage, according to the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office.
sentence of the day
Vladimir Putin is an outcast across the planet. »
Joe Biden did not mince his words to qualify the Russian president. According to the American head of state, Vladimir Putin “clearly loses the war”. However, it is too early, according to the American president, to say whether his Russian counterpart has been weakened by Wagner’s aborted rebellion. The White House remains cautious in commenting on the aftermath of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s abortive mutiny last weekend in Russia, when his men seized military bases and marched on Moscow, before suddenly turning around .
The number of the day
2. This is the number of NASAMS surface-to-air missiles that will be delivered to Ukraine within three months by Lithuania. This announcement was made as Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda arrived in Kyiv for talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. “Even in these circumstances, when stocks are empty, we find opportunities to help our friends,” explained Gitanas Nauseda in a video released separately.
Lithuanian Defense Minister Arvydas Anusauskas valued the contract at 9.8 million euros, adding that the launchers will arrive in Ukraine in three months. According to the ministry, Norway will provide Ukraine with logistics equipment for NASAMS launchers.
The trend of the day
After his failed rebellion, Wagner was directed to Belarus by Moscow. Nothing reassuring for the neighbors of this allied country of Russia. Polish President Andrzej Duda thus considered that the presence of the group of mercenaries can constitute “a potential threat” for neighboring countries, members of NATO’s eastern flank. “It is difficult for us to exclude that the presence of the Wagner group in Belarus could constitute a potential threat for Poland which shares a border with Belarus, a threat for Lithuania (…), as well as, potentially, for Latvia, it also nearby,” he told reporters in Kyiv.
“What are the forces of the Wagner group, so in other words the Russian army, really for, precisely in Belarus? Are they intended to occupy Belarus or to create an additional threat from the north towards Ukraine, by threatening a potential attack on this country from Belarus? Or is it a form of potential threat precisely towards our NATO countries, towards Poland? “, he launched.
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